I love the different sorts of people you see when you go to gigs. There are usually three general types: the one who does absolutely nothing, the one who goes completely nuts, and the one who moves their head, but absolutely nothing else.
The first type is almost too cool for gigs and spends most of the time sipping a pint, probably leaning on the bar or at the side. For them a gig is a visual experience only. If the band asks everyone to step forward, they'll think 'I'm not taking orders from you, you're here to entertain me'. Also the sort of person who, if someone crowd-surfs, will think 'well I'm not helping you, you should have thought through the consequences before you got up there. Now get out of my vision you fool.'
The person who moves their head but nothing else is a step up from this, someone who feels like they have to do something. For all you know, they might be tapping their feet as well, but amid the crowd it's imperceptible. All you can see is their head moving in time with the beat as if they're attempting some sort of weird cuckoo clock or chicken impression or simply about to violently throw up.
The third type doesn't care what anyone thinks and is all over the place, shaking their hair, arms, legs, other people....their eyes are often shut as they become 'one' with the music, or alternatively they're shouting lyrics (mostly wrong) at the top of their voice and pointing indiscriminately in the air like some over-eager schoolboy/girl. The sort of actions that, if there was no music or crowd around, you'd be very very scared of. At a larger gig they'll probably be leaning over the barrier like a frenzied animal trying to escape a zoo.
Any one of these three will be standing directly in front of you at a gig. One of them will always be at least seven foot tall.
